Excerpt from A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court

The author uses personification in paragraph 5 to describe

• himself.

• the king.

• the sun.

• midnight.

"if I had been blindfolded, i should have supposed I was alone instead of walled in by four thousand people.

The author uses the words walled in by four thousand people to create an image of

• a large enclosed space.

• a friendly party.

• an angry match.

• an elegant ceremony.

"The soldier marched in time alongside with the stray hounds as if they were part of the same unit. "
What is being personified? 

• The soldier
• Time
• A unit
• The stray hounds

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?

• The forest

• The wind

• A person whispering

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

In paragraph 8, the narrator says that the life went boiling through my veins.

These words show that the narrator is

• shocked.

• sick.

• frustrated.

• renewed.

Which sentence in paragraph 8 included an example of a simile?

• "My eclipse was beginning!"

• "I felt like a gushing geyser!"

• "I knew that this gaze would be turned upon me next."

• "It was a noble effect."

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A